Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4

[David Kastrup]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup skrev:
>>
>> I don't mind being able to specify --without-libpng and/or
>> --without-libgif, but the default behavior makes it somewhat too easy
>> to overlook that one is not generating a fully-capable Emacs for a
>> given platform.
>>
>
> That is OK.  We can issue messages that says the library in question
> is required unless --without-* is given.  Are there any library we
> should not require?  I was thinking of tiff, which I don't think is
> that much used.

It is quite common in prepress, and since Emacs includes stuff like
image-dired, it would appear reasonable to not omit it without notice.

-- 
David Kastrup